Paola Lo Bue Oddo

Bolstering Defences: Can Scale-up Funding Help Build New Defence Capabilities?

Necessity is a mother to an invention and with ongoing wars and increasing usage of drones bootstrapping defence capabilities is not unheard of. Nevertheless, the question of a scaling path remains. This panel explores this possibility, discussing different perspectives and mechanisms of scale-up funding in the defence context.

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• Paola Lo Bue OddoEuropean Innovation Council (EIC)Paola Lo Bue OddoPolicy Officer, European Innovation Council (EIC)Paola Lo Bue Oddo is a lawyer and policy officer at DG RTD’s European Innovation Council at the European Commission. As an EU official, Paola focuses on innovation, security and defense topics and is working on the expansion of the EIC to defense and dual-use. She has also worked at NATO and its Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre.

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